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Sample of authors
Börjlind, Rolf
Rolf Börjlind was born in Västra Skrävlinge in Malmö. He started studying at the College of Journalism in Stockholm in 1965, but didn’t complete the course. In the 1960s and 1970s he was active in several cultural fields, for example as a poet, writer, producer and actor. Together with the artist Carsten Regild he started the cultural magazine Vargen as well as the Vargen publishing house, and tog...
Literary figures
Þóra Guðmundsdóttir
Gender: Female
When we meet her in Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s first crime novel, skilful lawyer Þóra Guðmundsdóttir is 36 years old and the single mother of a son Gylfi, 16, and a daughter Sóley. She is divorced from her husband Hannes, but later embarks upon a relationship with the German police officer Matthew Reich. He is blond with long hair, high cheek bones and walnut-shaped blue eyes. And he is also the part-o...